Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-09-15

Mr.. and Mrs. John 5. Wright and
Mr. and Mrs. ID. Abrams went to
Bloomington Wednesday to attend the
wedding of Mr.. Woodhouse and Miss
Hatch.
Miss Carrie Groom, one of the eff
ticient attendants at the Asylum, has re-
turned from her home near Cassville
where she has been taking a months
rest.
Mr.. Schroeder left home on Monday
for Sturgeon Bay. His son Louis is
located there and is employed on the
force of the Sturgeon Bay Independent.
Mr.. Shroeder will spend the winter
there.
Mrs. William powers, of Yankton,
has been visiting in Lancaster for the
past two weeks. Mrs. Powers is ac-
companied by her daughter, who has
mysteriously slipped into young lady
hood since she was here last.
The General Superintendent. of the
Agricultural Society, Mr.. d. Abrams,
will be found on the fair grounds every
day from now till the close of the Fair
He will answer all questions and attend
TO all business in his department.
Col. Clark and wife are among the
number who set their faces westward
ho'' last Tuesday. They went via. the
G. b. & N. to Denver. Col. Clark is
one of the delegates to the Odd Fellows
Convention. During their stay they
will be the guests of Mr.. II. Clay Dillon.
Mr.. Geo. Y. Bonus, formerly of this
county, now of Sheldon, la. has been
visiting his old haunts and attended
the Bloomington fair. He is in the mill
business. He says he has large
quantity of buckwheat which he pro-
poses to make into excellent flour and
will be able to supply dealers in this
county.
w. II. Beadle will go back to Ne
braska with DR.. Odgers. They have
been buying up lot of horses to take
back with them which will be put on
to some of the Doctors land there as
the beginning of fine horse ranch.
Beadle has bought out Tom Willey's
interest in Coaly and his royal highness
will migrate with the rest
Charlie Burr and Will Carter returned
from their northern trip on Tuesday
They had fine time. The voyage"
to St. Paul was a lingering pleasure
long drawn out but they enjoyed the
river trip all the same and all the rest
of the journey, but most of all the de-
lightful visit in ST. Cloud with their
cousins and their uucles and their aunts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Page, Mr.. and Mrs
Conrad Knapp, Mrs. Edward Pollock
and son Berne Mr.. and Mrs, John Dol
phin James Treloar. Harry and Georges
Brooker, Perry Walker, Frank Calls,
Chas Zeglar and f. E. Mccoy are
among those who went to the State
Fair atMilwaukee On Tuesday Hons
Ryland and Showalter went on Wednes-
day.
Judge Mills received news the other
day of the death, at Washington, Kans.,
of the Rev. A. H. Walters, whom many
here will well remember. Mr.. Walters
was a minister of the Methodist church
and was for some years stationed
in Lancaster. He came here
as. early as 1850. His wife, who
was q sister of Mrs Judge Mills, died a
few years ago at Washington. Since
that time Mr.. Walters has been living in
that place, and here on the first day of
September he died.
MIR. John Pollock and wife started
for Denver Tuesday morning to attend
the National Convention of Odd Fellows
to be held in that place. This occasion
with the reduced railroad fare has been
no doubt an inducement to them to
undertake the journey, but greater
attraction presents itself in the fact
that they have children residing in
Denver Mr.. Pollock's record is
such as to lead one to suppose that he
requires some special occasion to in
duce him to turn his back on Lancaster
He has resided here for over thirty-five
years and with the exception of a
trip to Milwaukee to the Exposition, q
few years ago, has never once been out
of the town. We presume that Mrs.
Pollock's record would beat his.
Last Wednesday afternoon MIR. Sam
uel Stephens, of Rockville. came into
the HERALD Office, fairly staggering
under the weight of an enormous forty
two pound water Million He laid
the great green giant on the table saying
that he had brought this monster to be
sacrificed to wet the whistles of the
HERALD crew. Under some circum-
stances this might have been considered
as q sop to Cerberus, but as the
comparison does not tickle the editorial
vanity and as there is never much need
of throwing sops in our direction. we
took it with grateful hearts as very
generous expression of kindness. 1t
is idle to say that the press was stopped
and all hands gathered together and
ordered to ''fall to- Verify it was a
pleasant sight to see the various faces
beaming radiantly over three-quarters
moon of melon. and to see how fast the
moons would wax and wane.! Soon
there remained of that stately berry
but scattered fragments. But the next
day the boys in the back Office were
heard singing Tho meloncholic days
are come Mr.. Stephens has still q
bigger melon which be proposes exhib-
ting at the Fair.